My first exposure to plagerism

Despite being told that plagerism is still a problem in universities, I never really understood... until yesterday. One of the students in my class submitted a draft of a paper for me to review. It didn't follow the guidelines. It used lots of information we hadn't covered in class and that wasn't in the textbook. It used quotes that weren't in our excerpt. The style seemed like an upper-level student trying to dumb himself down to a first-year style.

In short, it screamed plagerism.

Because this was just a draft, and not a submitted paper, I told the student that I was concerned (without actually mentioning plagerism), and informed the Prof. about it. He's giving the student an extention until Thursday in the hope that he actually writes something himself. We'll see what happens.

You'd think students would realize plagerism is really obvious to the people correcting the papers. I don't expect any of my friends to plagerize (you're all *way* too smart for that), but let this be just another warning. Plagerism is obvious. It really is.

No Orpheus This Week

My appologies to the crucible. There will be NO Orpheus this Thursday, or at all this week. Ian and I will be too busy getting ready for ConCept. I misunderstood the conversation that was going on. I'll send you an email when I get home to confirm this. So, again, no Orpheus this week.